[Vile] Puppy Kicking PCs at Work

[Cepter]

Sunedilar al Hazir Human/Male Fighter

"Of course there is more to this than Hex lets on. He would be a fool to tell us everything, since he's hoping that his problems will all cancel out. And i think you are right about the assassin as well. No, this "frail old halfling" is more than he seems, in some way. We should return to the brothel, and see if something can be done for Alev's leg. We may be able to aquire some information there as well."

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Gwyn sheathes his weapons, drawing his bow and nocking an arrow to it. He then darts up the stairs, standing above Ezuvial and hopefully out of his reach, shooting straight downwards at the warrior.

 

[Telsar]

Sunedilar, Aligor, his dog, and a very hurt Alev make for Madame Brie’s. As they approach, all can feel light tremors through the ground, like a mild earthquake, but as they look far up the street they see the cause: the 9-foot half-ogre Alicia, apparently successful in her mission in carrying 2 unconscious women, running towards Brie’s, each step causing the ground to shake. The warriors can see Brie’s front doors are open, and Gwyn rush inside, with T’aria still standing at the door.

[On the map, the three warriors and the dog are around square S30, with Alicia still off the map, beyond the left edge; Alicia and the 4 are coming towards Brie’s from opposite directions. A Run would get any of the 4 to Brie’s front door]

Gwyn rushes inside, climbs the stairs, and prepares to shoot Ezuvial with an arrow. The rugged looking warrior sees his jaunt up the stairs, and says “Whoever you are, Brie’s is closed as of today. I suggest you run back the way you came.” He inhales deeply through his nose, then looks more closely at Gwyn, saying “There is something about you I find distasteful… and it’s not the hunting implement I see aimed at me.” At the doorway, T’aria is apparently still unseen by Ezuvial, and she notices the warriors coming up the street.

[Note- it took a move action to sheath Gwyn’s weapons, and another move to get to the top of the stairs, so no attack yet. Also, you’ll take a –4 to attack him and not hit any of the guards (as normal). As a house rule, when someone fires into melee and doesn’t care if they hit an ally, they take a –2 instead, and if you miss within 1 or 2, you hit one of those allies, randomly chosen, so if you don’t care if you hit a guard, make that clear.]

[Characters by initiative, damage:
T’aria, unhurt
City Guard 1, hurt
City Guard 2, hurt
City Guard 3, hurt
Sunedilar, unhurt
Alev, HPs: 1/19
Aligor, HPs: 22/37
Ezuvial, slightly hurt
Gwyn, HPs: 13/18]

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Gwyn cares nothing about the guards; he's more than willing to kill them all, if it makes his job easier. Thus, he will fire without any regard for their safety.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

T'aria will glide through the door and over to where she can get a good shot in with the dagger in her free hand.

[OOC: hide and move silently to 13M, taking the -5 penalty to move there in 1 move action. Throw dagger, not caring if I hit the guard. I will prepare to step backward through the curtain next action should I hit the guard and he become angry]

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"Aeweth, please do get ready. We have a job to do, we were paid to do it, and you will be doing it. You're a member of our little group, and no one has been lazy yet. Let's not start, shall we? Come on, we need to get going," Lydia says as persuasively as she can.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

As Aligor sees the huge figure of the half orc lumbering at a full run towards Brei's, he hesitates, and turns to Sunedilar. "She with you?" He doesn't wait for the answer, as he draws his waraxe in one fluid motion, and glances around the area, trying to get a feel for it. If he sees the other figures ruch into the building they are headed for, he will turn to Sunedilar. "What the hell's goin on here? Looks like trouble brewing near. This guy's not gonna be much help with that nice little cut of his, and we may need him. Don't you got any potions lad? Well Sunny, looks like old times. Let's go earn some coin!"

OOC - Aligor will follow in line to what Sunedilar does, as he assumes Sunedilar knows friend from foe, and Aligor does not.

 

[Telsar]

T’aria stealthily makes her way to the curtain, dagger in hand. Ezuvial, more interested in what he smells above him, takes no notice, and T’aria lets fly her dagger. The weapon slightly scrapes Ezuvials skin, but doesn’t hurt him in the slightest… his skin very tough. He looks at T’aria, “Another one? And unlikely to be a customer. Ah, I thought there would be more than the two, and I see I was right.”

The guards also take their swords to him; one misses completely, another grazes the warrior’s skin, still doing nothing, but the third guard rams his sword point-first at Ezuvial’s chest and the sword just… stops, apparently unable to penetrate even with a good hit. Ezuvial’s look is grim, as he says to the guards “There is still time to do the right thing. Help me find Brie and commit to the justice you are supposed to represent.”

[T’aria rolled 12+5-2=AC 15, missed, due to Ezuvial’s good natural armor. One guard missed, another missed again due to natural armor, but the last got a good hit… and failed to do enough damage to penetrate his Damage Reduction]

[Characters by initiative, damage, conditions:
Sunedilar, unhurt
Alev, HPs: 1/19
Aligor, HPs: 22/37
Ezuvial, slightly hurt
Gwyn, HPs: 13/18, "feeling shaky"
T’aria, unhurt
City Guard 1, hurt
City Guard 2, hurt
City Guard 3, hurt]


Meanwhile, upstairs, as Lydia begins casting spells on her weapon, Aeweth doesn’t like her companions’ ideas at all. She says that she’s not going to fight Ezuvial, he’s too powerful, but she’s not going to help him either. She owes Lydia that much. She makes a comment that ‘with us or against us’ is the same damn black and white morality Ezuvial espouses, and she won’t submit to being tied up, especially in this place, by someone she first met while he was paying for sex.

[BS, I could have included what you said in OOC that you would do next, but figured it’s better for the player to put it IC. And I’m saying Lydia was about half-finished with her spellcasting at this point. Also, everything upstairs isn't necessarily happening at the exact same time as downstairs, so the tying of Aeweth, casting of spells, and drinking of potions won't have to wait on the downstairs fight progressing.

Characters by initiative, damage, conditions:
Accalon, unhurt, “feeling shaky”
Lydia, unhurt, aligned and magical weapon
Algernon, unhurt
Aeweth, unhurt]

 

[Serpenteye]

Alicia keeps running until she reaches the open door. There she will drop the two women and proceed inside where she will stop, dumbfounded, and ask noone in particular; "Where's stupid evil Wizard?"


(ooc: the next round she will attack Ezuviel)

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Accalon Darcanda: Human/Male (Unholy Warrior)

Accalon frowns and looks upon Aeweth with apologetic forest green eyes, his voice carries his sympathy and concerns clearly to the whores hiding in the closet, “Your right, appearances here can be deceiving but there are far may willing ladies and I have far to many coins to be interested in forcing someone… I doubt you believe me, and I’m sorry for that too, but I was there to protect you and I watched Ezuvial casts a spell upon you. You’re resisting them, and for that I’m quite proud of you for that,” Accalon nods his head towards Lydia, “but you’re in the process of letting your friend go into combat by herself so I’m not sure how long you’ll be able to resist Ezuvial’s spell. So while you’ve forced my hand Aeweth, I assure you I do this to protect you and I have no desire to harm you but at this point I don’t think I can have you fallowing us either, lay upon the bed like a good girl or I’ll, unfortunately, have to place you there.”

OOC: Ouch that shaky feeling doesn’t make this as one sided a I had hoped… Good call on the roleplaying part, at least now Accalon doesn’t look like a total bad guy to the girls in the closet. The above is all the truth, as he knows it. Anyhow, you can’t really use diplomacy against a PC so I’m not expecting one here, but if she doesn’t concede to the bed then Accalon will proceed as described in the OOC thread, except that he will not do physical harm, subdue damage, till he’s at half hit points, and lethal when he’s down to a quarter. Of course if she somehow starts to do lethal damage so will he. TH’s never said anything about getting equipment so I’m assuming she’s in the see though whore’s outfit that makes it rather unlikely she’s hiding her modesty let alone a weapon.